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In this blogpost I presented a visualization made with R that shows how almost the whole world expresses its attention to political crises abroad. Here’s another visualization with Tweets in October 2013 that referred to the Lampedusa tragedy in the Mediterranean.

But this transnational public space isn’t quite as static as it seems on these images. To show how these geographical hashtag links develop over time, I analyzed the timestamps of the (geo-coded) Tweets mentioning the hashtag #lampedusa. This is the resulting animation showing the choreography of global solidarity: